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Film Application Paper
The FreedomWriters
Organization Development
Seminar Two
Prof. Williams
Rebecca... Shafer
1/17/2012
Film Application Paper: The FreedomWriters
In the case of the FreedomWriters, the teacher was the Practitioner and the students were the team. When she first came into that situation the team was not a team they were disorganized and had no sense of teamwork. At the time the teacher/practitioner came into the classroom and was an outsider was not sure what exactly...

SUMMARY OF FREEDOMWRITERSFreedomWriters is set in the 1990s and tells the story of a novice... teacher’s
interactions with a group of students in a Long Beach high school two years following the
Los Angeles Riots. The film is based on the book The FreedomWriters Diaries: How a
Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them, a
collection of essays compiled from the real experiences of Erin Gruwell (1999) and her
students, known as the FreedomWriters. The...

﻿ Interpersonal Communication
FreedomWriters...PaperFreedomwriter is a movie based upon classroom 203, filled with “unfit” students, and a teacher trying to reach out to them. This movie was made during the time of the LA riots where racism war was at its highest. When the school faculty and the students themselves felt it to be a helpless cause to be teached, Mrs. Gruwell stands her ground and tries to prove them all...

The FreedomWriters
In America, extremely costly, and inspirational movies on leaps in education and devoted teachers... absolutely hinders our society. Our goals are flawed as the actors and actresses who take the persona of these incredible real-life characters are paid far more than the actual people who sacrifice their lives for the social betterment of the future. The flaws in the educational system following the recession of our economy has indubitably been caused by the cutbacks on school...

Room 203: Here It Matters
In Long Beach, California, a war is raging. You can’t always see it, but its soldiers know it’s there. You need to go and watch... “FreedomWriters” right this instant. In this heartwarming movie, Hillary Swank plays quirky school teacher Erin Gruwell who, alongside her unsupportive husband (played by Patrick Dempsey) attempts to make history with her class of integration students, played by April Lee Hernández, Jaclyn Ngan, Armand Jones and many more. The movie plays for...

what you are because you never know when you can make a new friend or find a soul mate.
Throughout The FreedomWriters Diary we... see there is major segregation that is insanely driving off of ethnicity, culture, and race. One group wants to be on a higher pedestal then the rest, and in order to achieve that the violence comes into mind and starts taking action. According to a FreedomWriter, “The war has been declared, now it’s a fight for power, money, and territory; we killing each other over...

Possible answers for Six Step Analysis of FreedomWriters exposed
1. List all the different examples of belonging evident... in the text:
The students are clearly identified as belonging to an ethnic group, based on colour, race and ethnicity, e.g. the Cambodians, the Latinos, the African Americans and the ‘whites’. They also identify themselves as being gang members and belonging to the gang, including having territory and ‘protecting your own’. The majority of the students live in an area...

﻿FreedomWriters
Task 1: The Narrative Elements
Characterisation
Erin Gruwell- Erin Gruwell was a young English teacher in a... school in Long Beach, California she is a passionate teacher who gives up at nothing to help and teach her students
Eva and Sindy – They both hate each other as they come from different gangs, but when it comes down to it they are extremely similar and have been through the same sort of situations as shown in the scene where they are both are getting ready to go out.
Setting...

Ziegenbein 1
Elana Ziegenbein
Professor Milner
EDUC 210
26 April 2011
FreedomWriters
The movie “Freedom...Writers” is an inspiring story about one teacher’s dedication and commitment to her students. Remarkably, she manages to overcome the many struggles and hardships and significantly change the lives of her students. The film is based on an inspiring true story that encourages teachers to be passionate about their work. Many individuals do not understand the complex work teachers contribute to...

Freedomwriters Question
1. Why are the students so unwilling to associate with anyone outside their ethnic/racial groups?... Where does this intolerance come from?
The students are so unwilling to associate with each other because they’re not used to getting along with the other group of people. Their used to having to run or shoot at the other ethnic/racial groups. This intolerance comes from growing up in hostile environments towards the other ethnic/racial groups.
2. What would...

Introduction
FreedomWriters is a drama based on the book “The freedomwriters’ diary” by Erin... Gruwell and her students at the Woodrow Wilson Classical High School in California. The book is an agglomeration of the writings of these students, inspired by their teacher, to write about the experiences they had to undergo due to the racial tensions and violence existing in the society. The movie is an enrapturing representation of the way in which a teacher revolutionizes the process of classroom teaching...

Segregated by Race, Equal by Education
The movie FreedomWriters directed by Richard LaGravenese is a story full of different... themes, from segregation to sacrifice, and respect to equality. The movie shows multiple themes from different angles. There is a constant subliminal background to the whole story. The FreedomWriters was made after the famous trial of Rodney King in 1992. This trial brought out the injustices experienced by people of different ethnic origins. The Rodney King’s trial provided...

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FreedomWriters
Final Exam
Antonisha Duncan
After watching the movie “FreedomWriters” I... was almost in tears. The movie had an extreme impact on me. It was more like a confirmation that what the goals that I want to reach are not too far out of sight. Mrs. G in my eyes was and is a hero. She went into a school in which she would be one of the only minorities and made a huge impact. Despite the barrier that was between her and her students, she still conquered her goal. Which, was...

FreedomWriters Discussion Questions Name ______________________
Why are the students so unwilling to associate with anyone... outside their ethnic/racial groups? Where those this intolerance come from?
What would you do to break the ethnic and racial barriers in Mrs. Gruwell’s classroom?
Think about your own school or out-of-school activities. Are youth respectful of each other’s differences? Are there problems similar to those in Wilson High? If so, what steps can you take...

FREEDOMWRITER
By Pia Noelle Velasco (BS-CE W3)
As a child, my parents taught me to be the best that I could be. They taught... me to dream big dreams, strive for the best in life, be excellent in everything I do. Because I love my parents, I wanted what they wanted for me. I dreamed what they dreamed for me. I excelled at the things they wanted me to excel at. So I did my best. I gave my very best.
Eventually, it all paid off. From Grade 1 to Grade 3, I was an honor student. From Grade...

There is an obvious discrimination shown in the movie “FreedomWriters”, where everybody hates everybody and they got no choice... but to live in a world full of pandemonium. Random cultural implications are shown in the movie. Where one has to accept his/her society since birth, or someone has to really join a gang to keep up and belong to a hood. In the case of the students in the movie, they are just simply hopeless and what they all just do is to keep raging flames in their hearts. Until one tough...

Clause as Exchange
A. The nature of dialogue
The clause is also organized as an interactive event involving speaker, or writer, and audience.... Let us use the term ‘speaker’ as a cover term for both speaker and writer. In the act of speaking, the speaker adopts for himself a particular speech role, and in so doing assigns to the listener a complementary role which he wishes him to adopt in his turn (see Halliday, 1984a;Martin, 1992: Chapter 2). For example, in asking a question, a speaker is taking...

“FreedomWriters: The Unwinnable War”
Thesis Statement: History is a natural tension between tradition and innovation. Only by... knowing our limits can we transcend them.
Despite being less violently shocking than the other scenes in the film, the scene that stood out so dramatically in my mind was the part when Erin Gruwell was furiously flapping around a racist caricature of her African American student drawn by another Latino student, claiming that was the kind of thing that caused the Holocaust...

﻿FreedomWriters is true story based movie showing racism and social disorder life in America. The movie starts showing racial... tension and riots in the society among different ethnic minority groups fighting for their rights. In the beginning of the movie a childhood of a young girl Eva is shown who sees racial differences among people getting prestige and grace on how they physically appear. From an early age a negative thought is internalized into the young girl that “a girl can be crowned as a...

FreedomWriters, a film directed by Richard LaGravenese, is about a middle class woman, Erin Gruwell, who takes a job teaching in... Long Beach, CA. She receives a class of very different people, with different nationalities, who share the same fight. She achieved helping with disadvantaged students, when no one else thought that they would amount up to anything. As the film progresses you see how the student’s lives change and how they turned into well thought of adults, thanks to the impact of their...

After she talked to Ms. Gurwell, Sindy entered the room and gave her some make-up since that point on they become friend.
Then Ms. Gurwell wanted to put... all of the students’ diaries into a book. She called it The Diary of the FreedomWriter as reference to the Freedom Riders. Has her diaries publish is one of Eva’s biggest accomplishments of her life that is not gang related.
When the students found out that Ms. Gurwell is not going to teaches them during their junior year. They are all get...

FreedomWriters Diaries – Their Story, Their Words, Their Future
One of the main concerns that Erin Gruwell would face was... teaching a group of kids that the school system process having an integrated school was a good thing in front of board members that had issues at that certain time in history. The school system did not look at how this integration with mixed cultures would affect everyone involved. This system would suddenly take them out of their own element and put them with mixed cultures...

The Freedom Riders and the Civil Rights Movement
In 1947, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) planned a special journey called the... “Journey of Reconciliation” designed to test the Supreme Court's 1946 decision in the Irene Morgan case, which declared segregated seating of interstate passengers unconstitutional. An interracial group of passengers met with heavy resistance in the upper South. Some members of the group served on a chain gang after they were arrested in North Carolina. The South...

teachings. My faith and beliefs have been challenged, not for the worse but actually for the better, which showed me how not to fall short of The Lord and... his Glory. In this reflectionpaper, I hope to give insight on what I have learned, and also giving my personal opinions to each topic. My topics of discussion and reflection are first “Did Jesus need to be born of a Virgin? and “Does it matter how Christians liver their life?”
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Did Jesus need to...

Sandoval
Reflection essay
I have learned a lot of things about myself as a writer in this semester discourse term/class.... Learning new ways and styles to write different kinds of papers was a good thing to add to my education and work experience. Some of the things that I have learn about myself as a writer are good and bad. A couple of good things that I learned about myself as a writer is that I was able to gain an experience on how to organize my ideas and getting them down on paper. I have also...

ReflectionPaper
A Reflection On The Movie “The Sound Of Music” Directed By Robert Wise
By: Wan Anisabanum... Salleh
1.0 Introduction
1.1 Universal Relevance of the Movie
The movie was chosen as the subject of reflection because the writer feels that the movie offers plenty of opportunity for reflection on the human character. The writer feels that there is a lot that lecturers can learn from the movie and use it to become better and more effective lecturers. Indeed, the life of Maria...

﻿Bri Lipsky
Mrs. Durham
English 2H
10 May 2014
Their Story, Their Words
The FreedomWriters Diary by Erin Gruwell is a... nonfiction account of how a teacher and 150 students used writing to change themselves and the world around them. It was first published in 1999 by Broadway Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and was copyrighted in 1999 by The Tolerance Education Foundation.
The FreedomWriters Diary chronicles the true story of an English teacher, Erin Gruwell, and her first...

Comparing FreedomWriters and The Outsiders
Taking place in Long Beach California, Richard Lagravense directed an amazing... movie titled “FreedomWriters.” FreedomWriters came out in 2007 and has inspired many teenagers all over the world. Not only do I consider this to be one of my favorite movies, but many others do too.
FreedomWriters was a movie with many interesting characters. Hilary Swank stars as Erin Gruwell (Mrs. G), a high school teacher who realizes that teaching is her passion...

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personal response to the points you brought up in the first column. Mention how your subjective values, experiences, and beliefs influence your response.
In... the third and final column, describe how much of your personal response to share in your reflectionpaper.
Ask yourself questions to guide your response. If you are struggling to gauge your own feelings or pinpoint your own response, try asking yourself questions about the experience or reading and how it relates to you. Sample questions might include:[3]...

Book Report on the FreedomWriters Diary
Ten years ago, The Freedom...Writers Diary was published and soon became an international sensation. Today, more than one million people have read it, and they have even made it a motion picture starring Hilary Swank. As the freedomwriters all graduated from high school and keep on advocating their deeds, the journey continues. Through the report I would like to divide them into four sections to discuss: origin, differentiation...

An Inspiring and Meaningful Movie
FreedomWritersFreedomWriters is a drama movie based on the... book “The FreedomWriters Diary” written by The FreedomWriters with Erin Gruwell. The movie was first released on January 5th 2007 in the USA, and on May 18th 2007 in Norway. The director of the movie is Richard LaGravenese and the screenwriters are the FreedomWriters, Erin Gruwell and Richard LaGravenese. The Music is made by Mark Isham, will.i.am, Talib Kweli and other various artists. The main...

Research Paper- Film Analysis
Inner-city schools are suffered by multilayered structural and institutional problems. Although urban... problems mainly stem from socio-political power relations rather than individuals, classroom teachers must shoulder the responsibility for making education caring for urban youth. FreedomWriters (2007), a film released in 2007, addresses the complex challenges that inner-city teachers face by acting the special pedagogy of one teacher, Erin Gruwell. Throughout the...

﻿SOC-20-290C WEDNESDAY CLASS
REFLECTIONPAPER#1...
According to Wikipedia, the American dream is defined as a national ethos of the United States of America, a set of ideals in which freedom includes opportunity for prosperity and success and an upward mobility achieved through hard work. Individual perspectives and definitions of the American dream differ. Most see it as home ownership others especially the immigrants see...

FreedomWriters, Changing Perspective
The natural and reoccurring aspect of life, change, is one that has positive outcomes and... cannot be reversed. The outcome of how change affects a person can be modified due to extrinsic factors of people or place. The inevitability of change can be daunting or reassuring for a person, depending on the way it is embraced. Humans change their perceptions of the world due to what they are subject to. Ones extrinsic factors and how they see the world is constantly...

A Reflection on FreedomWriters
The Learners We Teach
October 14, 2010
A teacher must be... dedicated and devoted to his/her students. This was seen in the movie “The FreedomWriters” where Mrs. Gruwell an inexperienced but very dedicated teacher went to the extent in developing her students. Mrs. Gruwell was faced with a big challenge when a group of freshmen students showed her a high level of disrespect from most of the students which made it hard for her to communicate...

ReflectionPaper #1
Introduction:
The two topics I’m going to talk about are unconditional election and the gospel. These two... topics are really important to me as a follower of Jesus Christ. I’ve learned a lot more about my faith and these topics as well, over the past few weeks in this class. I will go in-depth with these topics and back up with scripture, how they are biblical and essential to know about in the Christian faith.
What is unconditional election?
Before the foundation of the world...

because it gives me something to argue against, in order to articulate my own theological position.
ReflectionPaper... Grading Rubric
Select the entire rubric below; then, copy and paste it into the final section of your ReflectionPapers (this must be the last page of your paper).
Student:
Criteria
Points
Possible
Points
Earned
Instructor’s Comments
Content: Does the paper cover the subject as thoroughly as possible? Are 2 topics covered? Does it demonstrate a personal understanding...

ReflectionPaper #1
Rhonda Carter
Theology 104-D11 LOU
April 15, 2013
I. Introduction...
This paper will be written to discuss the two topics I have chosen to write about for my first reflectionpaper. The topics I chose are spiritual gifts and love. When you start to think about it, these two things go together. If a person uses their spiritual gifts for the right reasons they will be doing it out of love for God. A lot of people these days do not use their...

Introduction
In my paper, there will be three questions asked and answered. The first question is why are personal testimonies important in... sharing the gospel? The second question is if a person is a Christian, does it matter how they live their life? The third and final question is, what can local church do to better communicate God’s love to your community. Let’s look at the answers to the questions.ve to your community?
Why are personal testimonies important in sharing the gospel?
...

Paresh Uppal
ReflectionPaper
MS12A051
My Reflections upon the Organizational Behaviour Course
A... 24-year old, Gen-Y guy entered a B-School with an aim to enter the Operations Field. He
was asked to go through a Core course of Organizational Behaviour. He thought to himself,
“What does an institute like IIT think, asking an aspiring MBA-grad to go through this HR
Course?”
Well, that was me at the beginning of this quarter when I saw the time-table for this quarter. I
have been through...

ReflectionPaper number 1
Bruce Alan Williams Student ID# 25941744 Theology 104 Summer 2013...
I have chosen as my two topics: The Holy Spirit and The Gifts of the Spirit. These are defined as a) The third person in the Holy Trinity. b) A supernatural force and power that acts on behalf of the Father and Son and also the believer. c) Came to bring in the Grace dispensation or the church age between the day of Pentecost and the rapture of the church from the earth...

﻿ReflectionPaper
North of Manila, the island of Luzon tempted me with some wonderful mountainous areas, volcanic landscapes... and a beautiful coastline dotted with heavenly beaches. Heading up the west coast from Subic, the Zambales coast amazed me being dotted with laidback resorts, while the Hundred Islands , as they say, a favourite weekend trip from Manila, gave me an idea on what to visit this summer. As I remember, further along the coast, the province of La Union draws visitors particularly...

In this first reflectionpaper I will be discussing “the fall of man” and “the death of Christ.” I chose these two because I feel... as though they go well together. The fall of man represents sin being introduced to man, and the death of Christ is where the opportunity to be forgiven of sin is presented. Although I have heard these stories many times before this course has enlightened me on a more in depth look of them both. As mentioned before I have heard the stories, but now I have a better understanding...

FreedomWriters
Director: Richard LaGravenese
Brief outline of story:
The storyline of the movie takes place between... 1992-1995. Beginning with scenes from the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. Hilary Swank plays the role of Erin Gruwell, a new, excited schoolteacher who leaves the safety of her hometown, Newport Beach, to teach at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, a formerly high achieving school which has recently had an integration program put in place. Her enthusiasm is quickly challenged...

FreedomWriters
Gang violence in Los Angeles was at its prime in 1992 right after the infamous Rodney King incident and Los... Angeles riots that locked down the city for three days. (Rodney King and the Los Angeles Riots, http://www.citivu.com/ktla/sc-ch1.html) Teenagers in the rough neighborhoods of California thought that they were destined to become gang members with their respective races, to fight a battle that their ancestors started. During this time period, teenage gang members felt that...

ReflectionPaper 1
THEO 104 Liberty University
July 19, 2013
I. Introduction
This reflection...paper will highlight some of the insights I have gained during the first four weeks of Theology 104. This course provides information relevant to living an inspired Christian life. I have chosen to write my paper on character development and conscience. As believers, we should be constantly striving to develop our character to be more Christ like and to have a clear understanding of what is right...

Comfort and Gods Glory
Ray Kirby
Liberty University
In the decision to discuss two topics included within this reflection...paper I have been led to discuss two doctrines that are close to all Christians. The comfort of God and the glory of God are the two doctrines that I have focused on over the last several weeks. The comfort of God has touched me at times over the course of my life however, never as much as it has over the last year. I wish to praise the glory of God as directed within...

Reflection
Theo 104
October 10, 2011
Liberty University Online
Introduction
My paper is to reflect on what I have learned... from my class and my understanding of the Christians view. I will focus on three important factors for my paper. One of them is Did Jesus claim to be God? My second focus will be if a person is a Christian, does it matter how they live their life. Finally I will focus on what can the local church do to better communicate God’s love to your community.
Did Jesus Claim to...

Reflection
I. Introduction
This course has proposed many thought-provoking questions for me personally. Many of the principles that I have... learned have allowed me to answer questions that I was not able to answer prior. It has given me a clearer understanding of what it means to be a Christian and the foundation that it is built upon. Now when someone asks “Does the Bible have authority?”, “Why are personal testimonies important in sharing the gospel?”, or “If a person is a Christian, does...

ReflectionPaper
In this paper, I will be reflecting on the aspects of women studies that I have learned about,... disagreed or agreed upon, and pondered about, felt a sense of empathy about, a sense of rage and a feeling of helplessness. I will be exploring what women studies is all about and what I have gotten out of the reading assignments for this class over this semester. This paper will be a summary of the key points in the readings of this class that left a mark on my mind and which have shaped...

discussed a myriad of topics about theology and Christianity. Our instructor asked us to pick two topics to discuss in depth. Two of the topics that I have... really been interested in studying further are the ideas of grace and spiritual gifts. In this paper I will discuss both of these topics in depth, including giving a theological definition of each concept, giving some biblical foundation of each concept and lastly I will explain some ways I can apply these concepts to my own life.
What is grace?...

movie suggested us to see what had really happened to our motherland. It is to see what she had been through to keep her standing in her place in the map of... the world. It is to see how many times our country had lost her identity, her dignity, her freedom, her voice, her rights, and her name. It is to see how many lives she had to remorsefully sacrifice just to keep standing. Watching the movie, I saw her. She took all pain and suffering and given up almost everything she has because she loves her...

﻿Reflectionpaper
When I first entered the Cyborg Millennium Class I didn’t really know what to expect. When I went to the... class on the first day on the fall 2008, I got a bit skeptic and I was thinking that maybe it was a bad idea to register to this class, because I thought that this class was for people that liked computers and technology and also that had to know a lot of things that had to do with computers. I certainly wasn’t one of these people that knew a lot about computers or that liked...

Reflective Paper
MTH/157
Throughout this math course, there were many different strategies that were taught. Many that I, in particular,... was very unfamiliar with. As I am planning on teacher early elementary, I am hoping that I do not have to teach too many of these new strategies. Some of them were very difficult and somewhat complex, and some of them were a review from previous classes.
During this course, there were several major mathematical concepts that were taught and reviewed. In chapter...

is without a doubt that teachers are an important part of a someone's life, whether a child or a young adult, teachers are always there. A teacher has an... impact on the person a child becomes, and also the person a child strives to be. The movie FreedomWriter is an inspiring story that throughout the film, Mrs. Erin Gruwell managed to be different as a commendable teacher, careless of the difficulties that surround her learning environment. She was fresh-faced, idealist and was ready to take on the...

ReflectionPaper Submission
Monday, November 17, 2014
7:57 PM
Angels and Demons
I. Introduction
In this, my first ever...reflectionpaper, I have chosen to write on the subject of Angels and
Demons. Let me start by stating I believe angels and demons do exist; the fact they exist on a
higher spiritual or dimensional plain does not diminish my belief.
Through historical texts (biblical and manuscript) mankind has been presented with evidence
they exist. However, it appears the preponderance of evidence...

Anna Pino
Dr. Fleischer
EDG 2701
27 March 2006
In-School ReflectionPaper
For my service learning project I worked in... Mrs. Evelyn Costa's first grade class at Meadowlane Elementary. Meadowlane is located at 4280 W 8th Avenue in Hialeah, Florida and was constructed in 1957. There are one thousand one hundred and seventy seven students enrolled at Meadowlane Elementary school. Meadowlane has fifty three classrooms and fourteen portables and there are one hundred and seventy nine students...

constantly suffered from it. Rizal wrote the novels in Spanish because that was the appropriate language for his intent.
Language is basically a tool, a... means to express ideas and to communicate these, but before being a tool, language is first a reflection of one’s objective reality. Language is a symbol that represents the material objects in one’s environment. If an object does not exist in one’s material universe, one would have no word for it. For example, a person in search of gold in a certain...